Pierce County Community Breakfast

In Pierce County there is a successful group of mentoring programs that collaborate on an ongoing basis to serve the youth in the area. This coalition, the Pierce County Mentoring Partnership, hosted a community breakfast honoring outstanding mentors and community champions on Jan. 14. Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen opened the event by thanking all the mentors and reading Governor Gregoire’s National Mentoring Month proclamation. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Frank E. Cuthbertson was given the Champion of Mentoring award for his exceptional efforts to support mentoring and encouraged others to volunteer. 

Outstanding mentors honored were Holliann White, Communities in Schools of Lakewood; Glen Weiman, Mentor 253, Northwest Leadership Foundation; Kya Miller, Girls Reclaiming Individual Purpose in Society; Quentin Silbernagel, Washington State University, Pierce County Extension 4-H; Kandi Horton, Communities in Schools Peninsula; Cheryl Bostic, Washington Youth Academy; Bobbie Watkins, Harvard Covenant Church KidREACH; Jose Guzman, World Vision Youth Empowerment Project and Christine Laybourn, Palmer Scholars.

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